MSC Software Corporation, announced the Black Marlin Release of the company’s next-generation complete Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) platform, MSC Apex. MSC Apex is the world’s first computational parts based CAE system that will serve as the platform for a broad range of physics and applications that MSC Software will introduce over time. MSC Apex transforms the way engineers perform simulation by reducing critical CAE modeling and process time from days to hours. The platform delivers innovative technology that enables predictive product development in the earlier stages of design where it is critical in saving time and money. Highlights of the MSC Apex Platform Include: MSC Apex is a built-from-the-ground up fully integrated and generative simulation environment With a paradigm shift away from traditional pre-solve-post point solutions, users can leverage the same user experience to carry out end-to-end simulation workflows with full associativity between geometric and analysis data, including fully generative behavior to ensure that all aspects of the model are consistent and up-to-date following design changes. MSC Apex is powered by a CAE specific direct modeling and meshing engine that accelerates the CAD to Mesh process by a factor of up to 50x CAD geometry is not suitable for analysis and geometry repair/improve and meshing operations are tedious, error prone, and take too long. MSC Apex features a complete set of direct modeling tools to make geometry clean-up and idealization steps fast and easy. These features provide dramatic productivity improvements for engineers. Sketching Sketch lines, squares, circles, ellipsoids, fillets, and chamfers Project, split, and edit existing sketches Geometry Edit Tools Identify features and defeature Geometry Cleanup and Check Split, fill and stitch surfaces Add/Remove vertices or edges Use Virtual Topology (Suppress/Unsuppress vertices or edges) Direct Modeling Interactively edit solids, surfaces and features with intuitive Push/Pull or Vertex/Edge drag tools Multilingual MSC Apex has built in multilingual features. Currently Chinese, English, and Japanese are supported Midsurface Creation and Repair Tools Extract mid-surfaces by auto offset, constant thickness, or distance offset methods Connect surfaces via direct modeling (Vertex/Edge Drag), Auto Surface Extend, or Stitching Meshing and Mesh Editing Mesh curves, surfaces, and solids, available element types: beam, quad, tria, tet Regenerate meshes automatically as geometry is modified Refine meshes with Feature Base Meshing and Mesh Seeding Move and align nodes, and split elements Visually inspect element quality Model Attribution Material Creation and Assignment Behavior Creation and Assignment Auto Thickness for Section Creation and Assignment Assembly Management Interactively translate, rotate, and duplicate objects Manage parts and assemblies based on model hierarchy Execute model search queries Control model appearance with color, transparency, and visibility Easy to Learn and Use Learn with in-program videos, workflow instructions, at-mouse instructions, and searchable documentation Submit application enhancement ideas or issues with the Integrated Reporting Tool Undo/Redo actions